PROFILES
Pizza Day
New teammates and long-time Advocate employees We invited a few of Advocate’s recent and long-time hires to tell us a bit about themselves. If you’re new to the team and would like to introduce yourself, email jillmurray@advocateprinting.com and we’ll save a spot for you in a future issue. Natasha Shea, Bridgewater, N.S. Position: Office administrator Hire Date: July, 2017 Hobbies: Painting and crafts, home improvements, and baking. Someone you would like to meet: My mom when she was young; she passed away just over a year ago and when I was going through family photos for the celebration of life, I found a picture of her when she was about 14, with wildly curled hair and a big mischievous grin. I would love to spend a day with her. Recent great movie: Great TV show actually — Only Murders in the Building. So much fun! Favourite saying/quote: “Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that makes you smile.” Favourite food: Not a single food, a group of foods: breakfast!
The Pictou, N.S., team recently took a break for a pizza lunch, celebrating recent wins, sharing news, and building team spirit.
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Kullen Wrathall, Pictou, N.S. Position: First Pressperson Hire Date: March, 2017 Hobbies: Coin collecting, 20+ years of it. Someone you would like to meet: Conan O’Brien. Recent great book: The Brethren, by John Grisham. Favourite saying/quote: “Be yourself because everybody else is already taken.” Favourite food: Manicotti.
The Advocate September 28, 2022
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By Steve Goodwin
said he’s anticipating a top-notch boxing season. He said amateur Albion Boxing boxing in Nova Club is hostScotia is in good ing an amateur card Oct. 1 that hands. will feature “I’m really happy a box-off that with the includes club member Noah club and looking forward to the Thompson. card,” he said. “I’m just thrilled Thompson will with the way boxing is going box in a 57-kilogram in the province. bout against Erin and Walter Josh proven Cull of Citadel are coaches, and Boxing Club Jay Martin in is moving Halifax to decide through the ranks Team Nova Scotia’swho will join coaching.” of boxing contingent for Worthen praised the 2023 Canada Thompson Winter Games and club in P.E.I. heavyweight Ian He is among MacLeod for nine of the 10 their gold medal competitive club performances boxers on the at the 2022 card. It resumed training for the Brampton Cup in July. MacLeod 2022-23 season has already qualified for earlier this month. Fifteen the Winter Games. other boxers are training for a “If Noah wins, possible chance he’ll make the to compete. That’s as many boxers team,” Worthen said. as the coaching Worthen staff can handle, noted the opportucoach Walter nity the club Linthorne said. has to host a card “We’re full,” May 27 next year he said. “The to help it mark boxers are looking 35 years. good.” Erin MacGregor “We’re really happy with that has also too,” returned to he said. coach the boxers, while former The club continues club to offer a Martin has become boxer Jay non-competitive a coach. Both gram for women boxing proMacGregor directed by Al and Archibald. Linthorne boxed in the Canada Games. The program starts at 6 p.m. “They’re doing Monday, Tuesday great,” she said. “This is and Wednesday the earliest we did the club’s for an hour before a show. We’re training hard other boxers and training begins they’ll be ready.” that includes exercises, MacGregor has as well as sparring also coached for the comat the Canada petitive boxers. Games level and is currently a Winter Albion Club’s card will preate coach with Games associ- cede cards scheduled for Boxing Nova Oct. 8 Scotia. in Sydney, Oct. 15 in Oxford and “I love coaching,” Oct. 29 she said. include in Glace Bay. Others “It’s been a great Citadel club experience.” in Halifax Club president on Nov. 5, New Jim Worthen Waterford on Nov. 15 and Eskasoni on Nov. 26. Noah Thompson, For The Advocate
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Occupational tintype photography making comeback on Grand Manan By Heather Knight
DiMartino GRAND MANAN – John of Grand Jr. is reacquainting the people 150-year-old Manan with a more than photographic technique. tintype phoIn 1856, the invention of photography’s broadened tographs way. The photoreach in an entirely new for “democgraphic practice was known to its affordratizing photography” due people. left, evades a punch thrown ability for most everyday by Nolan Walsh those during a sparring In just a handful of minutes, have session at the Albion Boxing afford to Club. who previously couldn’t (Goodwin photo) John DiMartino Jr. photo had a tanan image of themselves taken tintype work at a given Taken while working on his occupational Darrin gible depiction of themselves By Steve Goodwin emptying their in Newfoundland, DiMartino photographed For The Advocate point in time, without Society, Hookey, a cooper at the Trinity Historical pockets. Hookey isMemories New York, of a titanic hockey where they have a working cooperage. DiMartino, an artist from or flowing doryare from aseries back for Clyde Fraser remembered art passions afmaking a small pail used to bail water Fraser. shifted his focus to his how unravelled Soviet fans tried with the in the first two A view of the to cheer them skiff. up after Canada mincontents of a ter leaving a 20-year career suitcase emphasizes blew a 4-1 lead utes when Canada was assessed Agency. The in the first what it game in Moscow several penalties, and meant for Fraser Environmental Protection Canadian and lost 5-4. to attend five forward J.P. a step back, of the eight games Parise became Then things pandemic forced him to take John DiMartino Jr. photo between Canada changed. so incensed when and the former in that given a penalty Soviet Union He noted someone that he swung Grand Manan. recognizing he was unfulfilled Cover, in what has been Woodwards in his hockey stick nets had his com- at referee mending called the Summit posed a cheer Josef Kompalla. that contained Series, including and scallop fisherman Bradley Small role. pose doing the same thing. the Russian translations “We thought career, Di- Retired weir, lobster image of Small’s father in the same games in Moscow.the last four it was going for ‘yes’ be Since leaving his previous and ‘no,’ which shot to replicate a black and white to A diary he a riot,” Fraser kept helped the Canadians John Coffer The image was said. him remember roared with They got Martino apprenticed with the great fervour: trip vividly. photographs involves constant for “Da representativeto see Canadian tintype centre Da, Canada; teaching added. he Nyet Nyet, Soviet.” Canada won Alan Eagleson big draw for at the world’s leading the series with “I think it says something,” The cheer coincided rescued by tinkering, which was a 6-5 victory in a Tintype. Canadian players with from the final game Canada winning been interested in people wet plate practices, Camp authorities after Sept. 28, 1972 the other three process en- “I’ve always he became that him. – 50 years games and Soviet angry when the manipuHe embraces the authentic something because I do Fraser is a retired ago. fans were not goal judge was pleased. His work involves no digital slow to turn on educator chemicals, var- who make tell a story.” who had been that techthe light to indimodern tirely – making his own of photographs teaching like trace I “We didn’t do cate a Canadian only for three years when he with black too. anything that goal in the project hit lation. The attended the endeared ourselves third period. the scanner he nishing thin pieces of metal first The inspiration for this game. Canada to them,” nology in his process is natural light he said. won, 4-1, in “That was discovering a book of Toronto after of his images. varnish, and using only right down its shocking The series was in front of us,” tintypes, DiMartino after uses to keep a digital copy 7-3 loss in the Fraser said. series opener to create historically accurate with two weeks in two parts, couldn’t “You me take your image, I give tintype images. let you get away with in Montreal. “If between The Soviets said. the the free that in four games in also known as ferrotypes. tied world.” Canada, 4-4, Canada and “It resonated with me,” he as a thank you.” in Winnipeg the hands dirty,” four in Moscow. Canada eventually is not an easy you one and won 5-3 in Vancouver. about his Fraser said he “Literally getting your won the Opting to shoot tintypes found it prophetic game with This past summer he spoke worked so Paul Henderson’s He had not planned which can be for Team at the Canada. said DiMartino. “I’ve never famous goal to attend undertaking. Unlike film, the game in with 34 seconds work and held a demonstration Toronto but “I felt maybe was hard in my life.” at your leisure, DiMartino’s Grand Manan Museum, which had been offered a ticket after two weeks left in the third period. if he could travel Clyde Fraser shares a view of preparation photographs processed The Canadian there. they’d be in have a 15-minute of a suitcase Occupational tintype fans were isobet- lated from full of memories ter shape,” he everyday tintype photographsthey must be pro- in the works for a few years. said. how much of “I thought, ‘Why from the 1972 Canada tioning was missing“The condi- became increasingly he goes, but Summit Series. forged a connection between couldn’t I in which trade places?’” He’s been selling work as before, and communities window galvanized he said, referring weeks of unpaid vacation so was the confidence.” by the series the subject matter of to the game working people and the from million (Goodwin photo) and how the created out of pure teaching to attend in Montreal. people?’ We saw Team is bring- cessed. Because The last game Canada was at most of his work is the last four “I’m games glad I didn’t. women matched rallying. was especially dressed Eventually, he in the revolves around people surrounding them. DiMartino I left here at 5 tense for the by the loud and “We didn’t a.m. his arrival, Soviet Union. Upon streets in coats sweeping the and got there Canadian fans, capturing im- his images sub- passion for the medium. an exhibit or a know how the some- with times raucous at 6 he was astounded with corn brooms. whole economy police and ing that connection back, requires him to travel from contingent of before the game,” p.m., an hour a society by were two These some had stopped might show his work in that seemed so and their tools work, it sonnel mounted military per- watch these he said. “I flew 3,000 Canadians entirely different to different styles back to Halifax ages of everyday workers on horseback games,” he from Canada. witness- and life- ing the now he’s focused on creject to subject. coming together.” the next day. said. action, compared “Everything lining the route It was just a fluke processing book, but right had come to “They’d give to the hotel from the stop.” Among the proud of, just in the age of all things digital. primarthat I got to a you just about He completes all the image where they stayed suitcase’s con- remaining, mostly stoic, Toronto.” ating a body of work he’s anything to get Soviet rink. to the fans. They would a pair of jeans,” tents are the tickets he bought Two things While occupational tintypes women in the back of his truck. The window of photographing are show their disFraser needed he said. “We wondered, for bother Fraser. the four games than re- as the subjects he’s to take two “It felt really One is the eight at the Luzhniki pleasure with whistling. ‘Where‘s intimidating,” all the traffic ily featured men rather Canadian playhas to complete his images “We outshouted he said. “We their work. in a city of seven Ice Palace in Moscow. photographers time he were wondering ers and the 15 Soviet them with natural light. proud of occupaThe on-ice 3,000 people,” available his players what on between 1850 and 1880, who continue would entirely will have since died. tension was Fraser happen if we DiMartino today have lies won.” The other drown them out.” said. “We’d focus and The eighth Grand Manan bringing the art form back game had its is the limited response Each photograph requires John DiMartino Jr. photo to the tional tintype work in moments. It almost completely anniversary due to the broadened the scope of inclusion. is im- dedication. He doesn’t have unlimited 2023. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Carly Maicher is a landscaper, fibre people fails and Maine in summer DiMartino Grand Manan’s Lifting up the working in a single day, and if he in Seal Cove. For more information on exactly what attempts the artist, songwriter, singer and musician portant to DiMartino, and shot, he must wait until day in front of the and his work, visit johndimartinojr.com Here she is pictured on an overcast Manan this to get his The Stellarton he’s been doing on Grand can U-13 dog, Ruby, Albions light is optimal again. him on Instagram (@john_di- treehouse she made in her woods. boys’ Her baseball team Team members turned into or follow past summer. include Chace recently as Atlantic came home coaches What started as a hobby they work Ian MacIntosh, in the bottom left corner. pur- martino_jr). Campbell, Noah seen champions. the be .ca DiMartino ourier John “The people here hustle, The Bungay, Greg bringing Fitt, Albions captured heatherknight@stcroixc MacIntosh, Park and Leigh Evan the title MacLennan, would make me a passion, with a 5-0 record, Brody hard,” he said. “Nothing missing in his life. Creating as well as comas well as players MacLennan, Nicholas pliments as the of a plumber. pose he was most polite and Matt Kennedy, Jack Cameron, MacKenzie, Lincoln happier than if I got shots
Clyde Fraser fondly
Albions capture
remembers Summ
it Series after 50
years
U-13 Atlantic title
friendly team Bungay, Chase Comeau, others have met. Ashton Chislett, William Butland, Max Barry Stellarton opened and Liam Park. the Atlantic tournament with an 11-1 win over the Jays, followed by whopping 20-5 a win against the CBS Raiders. In the Albions’ this time against third game, the Paradise Phantoms, they came out with a 20-4 win. They defeated the Cornwall Cougars, 13-8, followed by a 17-7 championship win over the CBS Raiders Stellarton’s Ashton Chislett and Evan MacIntosh placed first Members and second respectively in of the Stellarton the celebrate home run derby. Albions U-13 after capturing boys’ baseball the Atlantic team championship title. The Stellarton (Submitted photo) Albions U-13 boys’ baseball championship title recently. team kept a 5-0
record to bring
home the Atlantic (Submitted photo)
John DiMartino Jr. photo Ingersall. Due to Swallowtail lighthouse keeper Ken took DiMartino four changing sun and winds, this shot days to achieve.
John DiMartino Jr. photo sitting on a Grand Manan’s Elton Greene pictured spread field in dulsing barrel in front of his dulsing than 50 years. Castalia. He’s been dulsing for more
John DiMartino Jr. photo from Seal Lobster fisherwoman Jordan Ellingwood of lobster traps. Cove, Grand Manan, pictured in front
John DiMartino Jr. photo Jones Davey Jones in Port Aux Choix, Newfoundland. to the fire in the is holding the poker he uses to tend French bread oven.
Suddenly silver The hard work of Advocate’s communityteam recently garnered national recognition with a pair of Canadian Community Newspaper Awards. The Pictou Advocate earned silver for Best Sports Coverage, reflecting reporter Steve Goodwin’s many stories. The Saint Croix Courier won silver for best feature, following editor Raissa Tetanish’s guidance of the newspaper through a year with several challenges.
Wes Rolandson, Dieppe, N.B. Position: Shipper/Bindery Operator Hire Date: September, 2023 Hobbies: Brazilian Jiujitsu, working out, cooking, and watching sports. Someone you would like to meet: Conor McGregor Recent great movie: Batman. Favourite saying/quote: “Whether you love or hate me, stand up for yourself” — Alexander Volkanovski. Favourite food: Burgers and pizza. Marion Kuiper-Lampman, Pictou, N.S. Position: Production Assistant Hire Date: July, 2023 Hobbies: l love to walk on the beach and collect shells for windchimes. I love being a firefighter and collecting anything fire related, and love fires. Someone you would like to meet: Robert Bateman Recent great reads: Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell and Indian School Road by Chris Benjamin. Recent great movie: Anything Western or Christmas related. Favourite saying/quote: “Always believe in yourself and live each day to the fullest with your eyes wide open. Don’t let others destroy your inner being.” Favourite food: Seafood or corn chowder.
